NEW RELEASES

RELIGION IN NEW SPAIN
Edited by Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole C.M.
$50.00 hardcover
This extensive study examines the variety of religious practice and tradition that developed from the confluence of the numerous beliefs and cultures in the northern colonies of New Spain.

THE HAUNTING OF THE MEXICAN BORDER: A Woman's Journey
by Kathryn Ferguson
$24.95 paperback
“This is an important book at the right time. We need to read this story and understand its vision. Recommended.”—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway: A True Story

ROADSIDE NEW MEXICO: A Guide to Historic MarkersRevised and Expanded Editionby David Pike
$29.95 paperback
This revised and expanded edition of Roadside New Mexico provides additional information about these sites and includes approximately one hundred new markers, sixty-five of which document the contribution of women to the history of New Mexico.

SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SPURS AND SULFUR: Poems
by Casey Thayer
$17.95 paperback
The Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series publishes two to four books a year that engage and give voice to the realities of living, working, and experiencing the West and the Border as places and as metaphors. The purpose of the series is to expand access to, and the audience for, quality poetry, both single volumes and anthologies, that can be used for general reading as well as in classrooms.

NEW MEXICO 2050
Edited by Fred Harris
$19.95 paperback
Here some of the state’s most noted and qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050—What can we be? What will we be?

A LIFE ON HOLD: Living with Schizophrenia
by Josie Méndez-Negrete
$24.95 paperback
Méndez-Negrete's powerful account is the first memoir by a Mexican American author to share the devastation and hope a family experiences in dealing with schizophrenia.

REINING IN THE RIO GRANDE: People, Land, and Water
by Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, and Mary E. Black
$34.95 hardcover
This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river.

CROSSING OVER: Poems
by Priscilla Long
$17.95 paperback“Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from ‘Kaddish for Susanne’: ‘All praise to all that is.’”—Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

ABBEY IN AMERICA: A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century
Edited by John A. Murray
$39.95 hardcoverAbbey in America, published forty years after Abbey’s popular novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, features an all-star list of contributors, including journalists, authors, scholars, and two of Abbey’s best friends, as they explore Abbey’s ideas and legacy through their unique literary, personal, and scholarly perspectives.

THE WILD THAT ATTRACTS US: New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers
Edited by ShaunAnne Tangney
$55.00 hardcoverThe first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West.

HUICHOL WOMEN, WEAVERS, AND SHAMANS
by Stacy B. Schaefer
$29.95 paperback
“A beautiful ethnographic work. Schaefer deftly relates mythology, cosmology, family life, and economics within the spiritual practice and mechanics of weaving. There is clearly a preservation ethos underlying Schaefer’s work, yet her depiction is not mournful, it is celebratory.”—Ethnohistory

A VISION OF VOICES: John Crosby and The Santa Fe Opera
by Craig A. Smith
$29.95 paperback
“An authoritative and exhaustive examination of John Crosby—the musician, the visionary, the impresario, the man—and his magnum opus, The Santa Fe Opera."—Juliana Gondek, professor of voice and opera studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

WORKERS GO SHOPPING IN ARGENTINA: The Rise of Popular Consumer Cultureby Natalia Milanesio
$55.00 hardcover
Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the methodologies of social, cultural, and oral histories, Milanesio shows the exceptional cultural and social visibility of low-income consumers in postwar Argentina along with their unprecedented economic and political influence.

FINDING ABBEY: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
by Sean Prentiss
$21.95 paperback
“Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey’s lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed’s own motto, ‘Follow the truth no matter where it leads.’”—Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey

COMMUNITY HEALTH NARRATIVES: A Reader
Edited by Emily Mendenhall and Kathy Wollner, Illustrated by Hannah Adams Burque
$34.95 paperbackCommunity Health Narratives: A Reader along with its companions Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth and Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth (UNM Press), provides a comprehensive curriculum that examines people’s health experiences across cultures and nations.

THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL INDIAN ASSOCIATION: A History
Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes
$45.00 hardcover
Mathes’s edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.

CORONADO: Knight of Pueblos and Plains
by Herbert E. Bolton
$34.95 paperback
Herbert E. Bolton’s classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado’s sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.

HOE, HEAVEN, AND HELL: My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico
by Nasario García
$24.95 paperback
In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family’s village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.

ONE DAY I'LL TELL YOU THE THINGS I'VE SEEN: Stories
by Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez
$18.95 paperback
The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez’s intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.

NATIVE WOMEN AND LAND: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
by Stephanie J. Fitzgerald
$45.00 hardcover
“What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?” Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.

REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR: Poems
by Diane Glancy
$21.95 paperback
Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.

THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE: Poems
by Jehanne Dubrow
$18.95 paperback
“Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice.”—Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid

FOUR SQUARE LEAGUES: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico
by Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks, and Richard Hughes
$34.95 paperback
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.

LAGUNA PUEBLO: A Photographic History
by Lee Marmon and Tom Corbett
$39.95 hardcoverLaguna Pueblo: A Photographic History includes more than one hundred of Marmon’s photos showcasing his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.

THE CANYON: A Novel
by Stanley Crawford
$19.95 paperback
To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible.

PAINTED TURTLE: Woman with Guitar
by Clarence Major
$19.95 paperback
“Major brings his characters to life with the accretion of specific details. Even so, his novel is distinctly spiritual, emphasizing the significance of traditional beliefs in the lives of Painted Turtle and her family.”—Publishers Weekly

THE ZUNIS: Self-Portrayals
by The Zuni People
Translated by Alvina Quam
$24.95 paperback
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.

PREP SCHOOL COWBOYS : Ranch Schools in the American West
by Melissa Bingmann
$45.00 hardcover
“An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education."—Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

THE HERO TWINS: A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers
by Jim Kristofic
Illustrated by Nolan Karras James
$19.95 paperback
Told in Navajo, the Diné language, and English, this story exists in many versions, and all demonstrate the importance of thinking, patience, persistence, bravery, and reverence.

CHASING DICHOS THROUGH CHIMAYÓ
by Don J. Usner
$39.95 hardcover
In these reflections on the dichos of the Chimayó Valley in northern New Mexico native son Don J. Usner has written a memoir that is also a valuable source of information on the rich language and culture of the region.

SPIRITUAL CURRENCY IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL
by Lindsey King
$55.00 hardcover
This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Canindé in northeast Brazil.

BUSH LEAGUE BOYS: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest
by Toby Smith
$24.95 paperback
“In Bush League Boys sportswriter Toby Smith relies upon fascinating oral histories to recall the home runs, screen money, and dust storms that characterized the glory days of post–World War II baseball in the Southwest.”—Ron Briley, author of The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948–1962

MASSACRE OF THE DREAMERS: Essays on Xicanisma
by Ana Castillo
$24.95 paperback
This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.

GOIN' CRAZY WITH SAM PECKINPAH AND ALL OUR FRIENDS
by Max Evans
$27.95 hardcover
In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah’s abusive behavior—sometimes directed at Evans himself.

SOPHIE'S HOUSE OF CARDS: A Novel
by Sharon Oard Warner
$24.95 paperback
“A deftly woven story textured with beautifully flawed characters who redefine what it means to be a family in an age where love, not blood, connects all creatures—from humans to honeybees. What a charming and deeply compassionate novel.”—B. K. Loren, author of Theft: A Novel

TORTILLAS: A Cultural History
by Paula E. Morton
$24.95 paperback
In this entertaining and informative account Paula E. Morton surveys the history of the tortilla from its roots in ancient Mesoamerica to the cross-cultural global tortilla.

by Erv Schroeder
$34.95 hardcover
Erv Schroeder’s photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth—the raw power that moved and shifted huge hunks of rock to form natural stone sculptures.

by Elaine Carey
$29.95 paperback“The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike.”—Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez

by David Seals$19.95 paperback
“Full of adventure, humor, love and sex, and occasionally some eloquent rage about the way Indians have been treated in America. . . . A trickster tale . . . in which a . . . clever and resourceful hero outsmarts stronger enemies and lives to fight another day.”—New York Times Book Review

THE POWWOW HIGHWAY: A Novelby David Seals$19.95 paperback
“Takes us into the places where Indians live . . . their jokes, their lovemaking, their hearts. . . . Leaves me feeling as if I had made the journey myself.”—Denver Post

ENDURING ACEQUIAS: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Waterby Juan Estevan Arellano $24.95 paperback
Touching on the Middle East, Europe, Mexico, and South America before circling back to New Mexico, Arellano makes a case for preserving the acequia irrigation system and calls for a future that respects the ecological limitations of the land.

by David M. Wrobel$39.95 hardcover
Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.

by B. J. Hollars
$29.95 paperback
In homage to Michael Lesy’s cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs reports from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century journalists with fictional versions, creating a hybrid text complete with facts, lies, and a wide range of blurring in between.

by Russell Lohse
$34.95 paperback
Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

by Thomas Fox Averill
$19.95 paperback
“Joyfully riffing on a holiday classic, Tom Averill’s A Carol Dickens Christmas is a moving and contemporary tale that, like the work of that other Dickens, focuses on what affects us deeply: judgment and compassion, grief and hope, cruelty and kindness. With a warm and realistic cast of characters, this is a story for people who believe in the magic of the season and—more to the point—in simply caring for each other.”—Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone

A SELECTED HISTORY OF HER HEART: Poems by Carole Simmons Oles
$18.95 paperback
“Through the lens of her singular and compelling life, Carole Simmons Oles guides us through our fractured, confused, violent century. At seventy, facing an increasingly fragile body, Oles crafts language that creates bonds—across cultures and tongues, across decades and oceans and continents. These powerhouse poems reach out generation to generation with generosity and compassion. These poems invite us in, offer food and drink and shelter.”—Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones

by Thomas A. Britten
$45.00 hardcover
In this book, the first study of the NCIO, historian Thomas A. Britten traces the workings of the council along with its enduring impact on the lives of indigenous people.

by Benjamin Radford
$24.95 paperback
Using folklore, sociology, history, psychology, and forensic science—as well as good old-fashioned detective work—Radford reveals the truths and myths behind New Mexico’s greatest mysteries.

NEW MEXICO'S SPANISH LIVESTOCK HERITAGE: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People
by William W. Dunmire
$27.95 paperback
The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World—not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. This survey of the history of domestic livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind, going beyond cowboy culture to examine the ways Spaniards, Indians, and Anglos used animals and how those uses affected the region’s landscapes and cultures.

THE CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF SHELL-MATRIX SITES
Edited by Mirjana Roksandic, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Sabine Eggers, Meghan Burchell, and Daniela Klokler
$85.00 hardcover
The contributors to this book introduce new ways to study shell-matrix sites, ranging from the geochemical analysis of shellfish to the interpretation of human remains buried within. Drawing upon examples from around the world, this is one of the only books to offer a global perspective on the archaeology of shell-matrix sites.

FOUR SQUARE LEAGUES: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico
by Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks, and Richard W. Hughes
$65.00 hardcover
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.